Animal Welfare Fund
Funding organizations and projects that will help alleviate the suffering of millions or billions of animals.
Our funds
Our fund managers direct donations to the opportunities they believe will have the most impact.
Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund
Funding organizations or people that aim to grow or improve the effective altruism community.
Global Health and Development Fund
Funding outstanding, evidence-based opportunities to provide better access to healthcare and economic development.
Long-Term Future Fund
Funding people or projects that aim to improve the long-term future, such as by reducing risks from artificial intelligence and engineered pandemics.
Our fund managers work at
Featured grants
Examples of grants with outstanding outcomes.
The Center for Responsible Seafood
$117,000
2024 Q4
Research & pilot program on humane chill-killing at Indian shrimp farms to inform global certification standards
$117,000
2024 Q4
Hear This Idea
$6,196.87
2024 Q3
Ongoing support for Hear This Idea, a podcast about ideas for solving important problems
$6,196.87
2024 Q3
Logan Smith
$40,000
2024 Q3
6-month stipend to create language model (LM) tools to aid alignment research through feedback and content generation
$40,000
2024 Q3
Malaria Consortium
$1,690,095.48
2022 Q4
Support of seasonal malaria chemoprevention program
$1,690,095.48
2022 Q4
How we decide what to fund
Our general approach towards grantmaking has been heavily influenced by GiveWell and the Open Philanthropy Project, two grantmaking organizations with significant experience and a strong track record.
Expected value
We balance risk and reward, sometimes backing bold projects with big potential impact.
Marginal impact
We ask how much more good a project can do with extra money, not just how well it’s doing now.
Counterfactual impact
What would happen if we didn’t fund a project: could someone else step in or is our support crucial?
Track record
We look at the people and organizations behind a project, and their history of delivering results.
Information value
Some grants are valuable because they test new ideas and generate insights for the future.
Direct and indirect effects
We weigh both immediate outcomes and knock-on effects, positive or negative.
Scope and limitations
Our funds are bound by scopes and limitations, which serve to guide our grantmakers.
What our grantees have achieved
Examples of how donations to our funds have made a difference.
Driving cage-free adoption in neglected, high-producing countries
Protected children against malaria
Published novel research on mechanistic interpretability methods for language models
Experienced fund managers
We have decades of combined experience managing large donations securely and flexibly, collectively overseeing tens of millions of dollars worth of donations to effective charities.
Caleb Parikh
Project Lead
Karolina Sarek
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Chair
Elie Hassenfeld
Fund Chair
Jamie Harris
Fund Manager
Renata Scarellis
EA Animal Welfare Fund
Fund Manager
Oliver Habryka
Fund Manager